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Anna Nagurney, John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management at the Isenberg School of Management, and director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, will be a plenary speaker at GameSec 2016, Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security, which takes place Nov. 2-4 in New York...

A new collaboration between School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) researchers and the Springfield Public Health Department’s well established Men of Color Health Awareness (MOCHA) program is supported by a recent five-year, $2.3 million grant for community-based participatory...

The legacy of paleoclimate on modern biodiversity patterns is the subject of a new study by a team of researchers that includes UMass Amherst anthropologist Jason Kamilar. Their startling finding, that past climates are more important to the structure of mammal communities than modern climate, implies that African mammal species have either failed to move with their preferred environments over the last several thousand years of climate change, or that these species are ecologically flexible and can persist in a wide range of climatic conditions.

Bruce Croft, distinguished professor and dean of the College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS), was awarded five Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Test of Time Awards in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field of...

New research led by social psychologist Bernhard Leidner at UMass Amherst will look at the consequences of violent trauma for groups and nations and investigate what victims and perpetrators can learn from it to avoid future trauma and conflict.

The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) small scale forestry group has honored David B. Kittredge, environmental conservation, with the 2016 Brandl Award, given annually in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of small scale forestry research. He received...

The Global Development and Environment (GDAE) Institute at Tufts University will award its 2017 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought to James Boyce, professor of economics at UMass Amherst, and Spanish economist Joan Martinez-Alier for their work on economics, equity and...

Geomorphologists who study Earth’s surface features and the processes that formed them have long been interested in how floods, in particular catastrophic outbursts that occur when a glacial lake ice dam bursts, for example, can change a planet’s surface, not only on Earth but on Mars. Now geoscience researchers Isaac Larsen at UMass Amherst and Michael Lamb at the California Institute of Technology have proposed and tested a new model of canyon-forming floods which suggests that deep canyons can be formed in bedrock by significantly less water than previously thought.

Microbiologist Kristen DeAngelis at UMass Amherst recently was awarded two grants totaling about $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to advance understanding of the role of soil microbes in feeding carbon into the atmosphere and contributing to global warming.

Geoscientists Christine Hatch and John Gartner at UMass Amherst have received a two-year, $99,000 grant from the North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative to help create a regionally consistent assessment of river corridors across the North Atlantic states.